All Stories by Maria Temming
- Space
Check out some of the best pics from the Artemis II mission
The Artemis astronauts are safely back on Earth. But they immortalized their historic voyage to the moon in these stunning photographs.
- Animals
Let’s learn about the platypus
Every new discovery about platypuses reveals them to be even odder than we thought.
- Space
Supermassive black holes might trace back to huge, ancient stars
Hefty stars might have collapsed into “intermediate mass” black holes — the building blocks of supermassive ones, a teen’s research suggests.
- Planets
Let’s learn about Venus
Venus’ surface is hot enough to melt lead, studded with volcanoes and shrouded in clouds of corrosive acid.
- Health & Medicine
A new cell model could help kids and teens with arthritis
This model was built by a teenager with juvenile idiopathic arthritis — a poorly understood chronic illness.
- Animals
Let’s learn about animals that can regrow body parts
Animals that regenerate limbs, eyes and other body parts may hold clues to superhuman healing.
- Physics
Let’s learn how to make a sports ball soar
A ball’s shape and spin both affect how it flies through the air.
- Physics
Precise tee placement can improve golf driving, teen finds
A homemade golf-ball-driving machine helped this middle-school engineer improve his own game.
- Fossils
Let’s learn about Tyrannosaurus rex
These fearsome predators truly were enormous — with the bone-crushing bite power to match.
- Health & Medicine
Butt breathing might help people struggling to get enough oxygen
This strange investigation into whether humans can use the gut for breathing has surprisingly heartwarming origins: helping the scientist’s dad.
- Microbes
Let’s learn about viruses
Viruses cause a huge range of illnesses, but vaccines can help protect you against these infections.
- Fossils
Here’s why ammolite gems have a rainbow shimmer
The fossils’ fabulous colors arise from delicate assemblies of crystal plates.
